Jon iz teh kewl:well if your naked. your either a naked child or a naked adult on bath salts/PCP. see this is what laws do to people. they have to use DRUGS to defeat the anxiety that U GAVE THEM. about NUDITY.

StrangeQ:silverjets: Bashar and Asma's Infinite Playlist: Sounds like the cop got a little full in his diaper looking at a naked toddler.

Know how I know you didn't actually read the article?

Yeah, sounds like the real cop actually made a sound decision for once.

Do you know how many thousands of stupid and idiotic calls cops get and how many times they make "sound decisions"? You just never hear about that because it isn't news or entertaining in the slightest. You'll only hear of it when it goes wrong.

Ha, if that happen to me I'd threaten sue that guy for watching my naked children which would shut that guy up real quick since even if no charges or paperwork are filed, just the rumor that he is some sort of pedo will follow him and ruin the rest of his life.

Oh_Enough_Already:fzumrk: Everyone on that boardwalk is now guilty of viewing live child pornography and should be sent to prison as well as being placed on the sex offender list for the rest of their lives.

Seriously, though, if it's illegal to posses a photo of something like this, why is it legal to parade it around in public?

And if/when somebody did take a pic, the same parents complaining this was "ridiculous" would be demanding "why didn't somebody stop them!?!?!?"

These are the first arse clowns who complain that the police are infringin' mah rites!' when it comes to them, but someone to complain about an overzealous staffer? Well now don't do that you whiny bastich, alles in ordnung afterall.

MyToeHurts:The naked baby thing asideThat writer is a douche and deserves a cock punchCan't believe his editors allowed that dribble to be published

I disagree. Who knows how many other parents were harassed by the "beach supervisor" but don't work for a newspaper. In a sane world, people washing their children off after time at the beach would be a completely normal and accepted activity. That it's not is a sad and mockable state of affairs. It's worth publishing the article to shame that town for being stupid.

Unfortunately, most of the comments on the story are of the "your kids shouldn't be naked" variety. To me, those people are either trolling, or the USA has gone way, way, toward the dark side.

These are the first arse clowns who complain that the police are infringin' mah rites!' when it comes to them, but someone to complain about an overzealous staffer? Well now don't do that you whiny bastich, alles in ordnung afterall.

A big, fat THIS.

If you have a problem with little kids running around naked at a beach then you are an idiot. They're little kids for f*ck's sake, they have no concept of sexuality. They're simply having fun at the beach and some people want to stop that because they might see a pre-pubescent penis or a barely-visible pudenda. I would contend that those in opposition are really the ones with the problem as they automatically conflate naked children with paedophilia. As for the whole "Ooh no, a pedo might grab them" argument that's pathetic! They might do that anywhere, the beach is probably less likely given the fact that there's very little cover and potentially thousands of witnesses/have-a-go-heroes around. On the list of offensive sights one might encounter in public, a naked toddler is way, way down.

jasenj1:MyToeHurts: The naked baby thing asideThat writer is a douche and deserves a cock punchCan't believe his editors allowed that dribble to be published

I disagree. Who knows how many other parents were harassed by the "beach supervisor" but don't work for a newspaper. In a sane world, people washing their children off after time at the beach would be a completely normal and accepted activity. That it's not is a sad and mockable state of affairs. It's worth publishing the article to shame that town for being stupid.

Unfortunately, most of the comments on the story are of the "your kids shouldn't be naked" variety. To me, those people are either trolling, or the USA has gone way, way, toward the dark side.

I don't think MyToeHurts was talking about the fact that it was published, but rather the tone and language of the article. And I have to agree. The writer's arrogant, snide, self-righteous tone seemed to be trying to portray himself as the pinnacle of martyrdom. He somehow managed to blow an already ridiculous circumstance further out of proportion, suggesting starting a protest march because his children might've been thrown in prison for 90 days. I want to argue the opposing side just to prove this douchebag wrong.

Why wouldn't you just pull open the swimsuit for a bit, rinse them off, and continue on your way? When I was a kid we didn't even wash off. We just put towels down, piled into the car, showered/changed when we got home, and my mom vacuumed the car later.

No need for hyphens when you say somebody is "two years old", subby. (That's only when the whole phrase is used as a modifier, as in "That two-year-old child is two years old".)

Also, "respectively" is only used when there are two lists, to indicate that the items in the list are in corresponding order, as in "Boss Hogg and Daisy Duke are pathetic and hot, respectively". It serves no purpose here.

Badgerlad:Given it's Jersey Shore, those cops must have been devastated to find it was just two kids, rather than the chance to tazer and capture two live oompa loompas.

Just to be clear: what most folks think of when they hear "Jersey Shore" isn't like where this guy was. Spring Lake is the most boring, uptight beach I've ever been to. My friend's dad would take us there on vacation when we were teenagers and it sucked. No shops on the boardwalk to speak of, no activities, etc.; just beach, bland boardwalk, and bad attitudes. Hardly fun for a teenager, it's more geezer speed.

The author wasn't far off when he speculated part of the snark was because he (the author) was obviously not a local. People are snooty as fark in that town.

The Snookie types wouldn't bother going to Spring Lake because it's about as fun as watching sand errode.

No one else complained complained. Only the supervisor whose job it is to enforce the rules. I'm not sure I'm really ready to condemn him for doing his job. For all we know he loses his union job if he doesn't follow the book.

And we are getting one side of the story, of course. And even the author says he simply ignored the beach employee outright. Not apologised, not say "Thanks for the warning we will hurry up and be on our way." Just ignored him. Again, I'm not sure I can really fault the beach employee for doing his job.

But, of course, most people here will jump to that conclusion and feel confidently superior in their own enlightened self righteousness.